Month of August… year 2018, date 11 and day Saturday. Everything seemed like a normal routine like everyday. All the bank employees were busy in their respective work. Their minds were far away from the attack that was going to be disastrous for the bank. But as the day wore on, as soon as 5 in the evening the phone rang one after the other and everyone had the same question- Is there a server fault? The phone rang and the strong security server of the bank got hacked. This was the biggest cyber attack ever in history. Such an attack that shook the agencies of 32 countries and cost India 95 crores in a few seconds. In April this year, 11 people were sentenced to jail for the biggest cyber attack in the country and history. But the question arises that how did the cyber thugs clear the bank's 95 crore rupees in a pinch? Let us know the layer-by-layer details of the biggest money heist…
In fact, the script of the biggest bank heist to happen on 11th and 13th August was written within 6 months. For this a team of many people was formed and step by step bank theft was carried out. The thugs had a plan that they would withdraw money from the bank in two steps. The first attack will be on August 11, 2018, Saturday. On this day the computerized ATM server of the bank was hacked. By capturing it, money was withdrawn from 31 countries including India. For this thugs made cloning cards. Just two days after this i.e. on Monday the Society for Worldwide Interbank Telecommunications ie SWIFT facility was hacked.
theft according to planning
According to the planning of the thugs, in the first attack, 80 crore 50 lakh rupees were withdrawn from different ATMs through clone cards from 31 countries including India. After this, hackers stole Rs 13 crore 92 lakh from the bank account through the messaging system. But where did the thugs keep so much money? So sir, the thugs transferred this much amount to an account of Hong Kong's Hang Seng. This account belonged to a local firm. Now the question in your mind will be that how the money was withdrawn from the ATM together?
When it was investigated, the police came to know that about 5000 clone cards of Cosmos Bank were made from which the theft took place. This amount was withdrawn from more than 12 thousand ATMs around the world. Stolen ATM card data was bought from darknet. Visa card was used for transactions outside India, while in India the amount was withdrawn with the help of Rupay card.
How to get money back from Hong Kong?
When the police came to know that this amount had been deposited abroad, the Ministry of External Affairs and Cosmos Bank tried together, due to which the looted amount of Rs 5 crore 72 lakh was recovered. In fact, Hong Kong officials had frozen Rs 10 crore. When the court there gave instructions to return the money, Rs 5 crore 72 lakh was returned as its first instalment.
18 people arrested in the case
So far 18 people have been arrested in the biggest cyber hacking and bank heist in history. One of the accused died before the sentence could be pronounced. The most surprising thing is that the people arrested had no role in the hacking. He only withdrew money from ATMs in cities like Mumbai, Ajmer and Indore after a cyber attack on the bank's server. They were just hired laborers, who themselves did not know that they were going to be involved in a big robbery. However, the news was that a unit working for North Korea's intelligence agency - Reconnaissance General Bureau could be involved in the matter.
After which three operatives of the Reconnaissance General Bureau Unit are suspected of cyber attack in 2018 in many countries including India. Apart from this, he is also accused of 2017 WannaCry 2.0 global ransomware attack. In 2016 also, the same agency is behind the theft of around $80 million from Bangladesh Bank. But, the robbers of the robbery in India's Cosmos Bank are still roaming freely somewhere.
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